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  • Covering ‘Lando’: Lessons learned

    GOVERNMENT RESPONSE to Typhoon Lando (International name: Koppu) demonstrated the improved level of disaster preparedness in the country. Government support has made possible more accurate forecasting by the Philippine... Read more

  • Chronicle

    Call for Papers: International Symposium on Online Journalism; Endometriosis Association Media Excellence Awards Read more

  • Premature conclusion, editorializing

    JEERS TO some media organizations for prematurely concluding that it was New People’s Army guerillas who killed a town mayor in Agusan del Sur and his son, and for... Read more

  • Media focus on celebrities and trivia in reporting the filing of COCs

    THE FILING of certificates of candidacy (COC) on October 12 to 16 signaled the start of the election year.Presumably serious political aspirants flocked to the national and local offices... Read more

  • Obit

    Çetin Altan, 88  JOURNALIST AND author Çetin Altan died October 22. He was 88. Altan began his journalism career as a reporter for the Ulus newspaper in 1946. He... Read more

  • Chronicle

    2016 Lucas Dolega Award, UNICEF Voices of Youth Blogging Internship Read more

  • Careers

    THE CENTER for Media Freedom & Responsibility is looking for a staffwriter/reporter. Position is on contract basis (one year). Read more

  • Media off to a good start as pols announce candidacies

    CHEERS TO CNN Philippines and Rappler.com for their efforts at providing background information on the vice presidential aspirants in the 2016 national elections as the period for the filing... Read more

  • The LP twerking scandal: Beyond the lewd and obvious

    OTHER MEDIA organizations were quick to pick up the story when news broke about a group called Playgirls performing what many thought was a lewd show during the birthday... Read more

  • Reporting on the Lumad schools

    MOST OF the reports by the media on the Lumad issue focused on the violence in their communities, militarization, and the alleged radicalization of the Lumad by the New... Read more